Kazakhstan's finance ministry is considering the possibility of issuing Eurobonds worth no less than $1 billion by year-end, Kuat Akizhanov, director of the State Borrowings Department of the Finance Ministry, has said.

Investments in LLC SOCAR-Polimer, a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), will total $335 million, the Sumgait Chemical Industrial Park, of which SOCAR-Polimer is a resident, told Interfax.

Russia had a consolidated budget and extra-budgetary funds surplus of 719.7 billion rubles in January-April 2014, compared with a surplus of 396.1 billion rubles in the same period of 2013, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

Consolidated budget revenue, including state extra-budgetary funds, totaled 8.498 trillion rubles, compared with 7.708 trillion rubles in the same period of 2013; and consolidated spending was 7.779 trillion rubles, up from 7.312 trillion rubles.

OJSC Zarubezhneft boosted earnings before taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) to Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) 50% year-on-year in 2013 to 33.2 billion rubles, the company said in its annual report.

Russia does not welcome the U.S. decision to allocate $500 million to the armed opposition in Syria but hopes this money "will not flow to the wrong hands," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Promsvyazbank (MOEX: PRSB) posted a net loss of 2.1 billion rubles in the first quarter of 2014 compared with a net profit of 2.2 billion rubles in the same period last year, the bank said in its IFRS earnings report.

The Central Bank of Russia has raised its forecast for the volume of refinancing it offers banks in 2014 to 7 trillion rubles from 5 trillion rubles previously, Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina said at a press conference on Monday.